[BiO BB] Conference announcing - Italian Biotech Law Conference 2007

[Andrea Monti]

Dear All,
The Italian Biotech Law Conference 2007 will start next Apr. 5, 07 in
Milan, at the IFOM-FIRM research facilties.
The conference topic is "Who owns bioinformation". Here is the programme
- http://www.iblc.it/program.php

Conference background
WHAT IS IBLC

IBLC stands for Italian Biotech Law Conference, the first Italian
scientific conference dealing, from an interdisciplinary perspective,
with life-science, information technology and law.

IBLC “father” is Andrea Monti (www.andreamonti.net) , an Italian lawyer
and legal scholar, researching, since more than 12 years, the field of
ICT legal issues.

IBLC was born in 2004 as an Italian Cyberspace Law Conference
(www.iclc.org)  “spinoff”, with title Bioinformatics Research between IP
protection and information free flow. The discussant where dr. Marcella
Attimonelli (associate professor of molecular biology at the University
of Bari) and dr. Paolo Vezzoni (researcher at the National Research
Council’s Institute of Biomedical Technologies).

IBLC second edition (2005) the title Protection of Biotech Assets,
Market, Freedom of Research has been discussed by dr. Enrico Dainese
(associate professor at Teramo University’s Comparative Biomedical
Science Dept.), dr. Giampiero Di Plinio (professor of Public Comparative
Law at the University of Chieti), dr. Piero Fariselli (researcher at the
Department of Biology - University of Bologna), dr. Andrea Cocito (FIRC
Foundation of Molecular Oncology’s bioinformatics group.)

Who owns bioinformation? is the IBLC 2007 Third edition leading
question. (Possible) answers come from the following high profile
scholars and researchers, “managed” by Giovanni Boniolo (conference
chair - University of Padova, IT, Dept. of Philosophy):
Pier Paolo Di Fiore - Andrea Cocito FIRC - IFOM - How to build
bioinformation
Luciano Floridi Oxford University, Oxford, UK - What is bioinformation
Giovanni Ziccardi - University of Milan, IT - Semantic Ambiguities,
Intellectual Propriety, Law
Marco Ventura - University of Siena, IT -  Bioinformation and Public
Policies

IBLC 2007 is hosted by IFOM-FIRC Foundation of Molecular Oncology
(www.ifom-firc.it) at its Milan research facilities, 16, via Adamello.